Reuters Reporting that Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is Dead – 10/20/11

Reuters is reporting that Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is dead – killed as his hometown of Sirte fell to forces of the new Libyan Government:
REUTERS: Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said.His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen.
“He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.” . . . Read More
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